Jill Joins Snap, Krackle, and Pop on their Cereal Box

Cereal Murders

Dear ,

Today is not a new moon. Neither was June 1. Sorry for that blunder in last month's Muse Flash. My source was a dubious, loose association having a one night stand with a mood swing on a tangent. I'll be more medicated.. I mean careful, next time. ...more CAREFUL next time.

But seriously, I'm not on meds but I am thankful for all the corrections you sent and also for the beautiful sentiments about my mom. ... They touched my heart and I'm sure wherever Mom is, she thought it was pretty cool too, although she'd be surprised that people could be so attentive considering the way I wear my hair and the fact that I don't stand up straight even when told over and OVER.. ;).

This month we forge into a BOX THINKING theme. You know me.. I like to break the rules. I know a lot of you do too. Creative publications are always talking about "out-of-the-box" thinking.  The real innovative challenge is taking over-used cliches' and making them creative.

There IS creativity in the box as well outside. Sometimes there's even more focus and progress when we have edges to bounce up against  containers that provide structure. I don't know about you but sometimes when there's no edges, I find myself in a bathtub sailing across the ocean when I need to be working on my creative passions.

I was also thinking, in another loose association, that I don't want to be on the front of a Wheaties Box. I want to be on the front of Rice Krispies: Snap, Krackle, Jill, and Pop. It's all who you know, and I know Krackle.*

Remember this song by Paul Simon?:
Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake
Floatin' in my bowl takin' movies,
Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style,
Talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A.,
Casually glancing at his toupee.

Ahhhhh, South California.

Playing this song so much in college may be the reason I now live in south California and in the past month have gone into movie making, passionately. Ahhhhh.
If you don't have a creative passion in your life.. look around for classes that would give you structure to learn something new. Classes always work for me as they provide edges to push up against. I took a film-shorts class and now I wear film shorts on every thought I have. A creative passion is a fire of joy.
 
Thursday, July 9th 5 pm PT, 6 MT, 7 CT, 9 ET
This month's Free Creativity Coaching Call is about Making Creative Prompts a part of your Summer. This is Anti-aging Potion #4 from The Awe-manac will be presented in experiential form - how can you keep your mind fluent in ideas, creativity, and youth?

You must be present to be present.
Please join me on the July 9 call. Sign up Here.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered,
Jill Badonsky
www.themuseisin.com
www.kaizenmuse.com

 *Thanks Mitch Hedberg

liberate your creativity

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Training Coming Up

The next Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training runs from
August 26 to November 12, 2009   

KMCC coaches have been trained and certified since January 2004. Come join us and experience a transformation in yourself and a new stream of joy and income.

The KMCC models uses tools such as specially designed guided imageries, mind-sculpting, play, and new perspectives of thought and compassion. The July 9 call is a good place to learn a little more of what we are about.

"Jill, you said right at the beginning of the course that we would not be the same people when this course was finished...That it wasn't possible.  I have to admit that I took that pretty lightly.  But the truth is that you were right.
 
  I've read dozens upon dozens of books, given my heart and soul to everyone around me...and through all of this I never really "got it".  I did get some of it...but I was missing a very important part.  That is until now.
 
So you were right...I am not the same person... There is a real "I" in I now.  If that makes any sense.
You know it has everything in the doing and doing in a small way.
You can "get" something intellectually and that's great but until there is practice, that intellectual understanding doesn't mean very much.
 
Thank you Jill"
Pam

The KMCC training takes place through teleconferences and active involvement in a rich, Internet community, observations of coaching sessions with Jill, and enjoyable, practice coaching with classmates.  You will bond with your own tribe and are supported in a personalized way by Jill Badonsky to discover a new level of your creative self as well as experience the 10 tools that have helped thousands unlock a creative life. Taught by Jill Badonsky with UCLA psycologist, Robert Maurer. More information both here and here and if that's not enough, consult your intuition.

 A  testimonial for KMCC from Chris Dunmire, the creative genius behind the Creativity-Portal.

To be matched up with a KMCC coach email me at jillbadonsky@hotmail.com.
KMCC students are looking for clients at a discounted rate. Email me for more information.

Baby Boxing Match

Tricks are for Kids

The creative self is always at play, tethered to the kid-like spirit, in ever-new a-musement.

“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.” Stephen Wright

Need a new monitor cleaner for your computer?

July is Twyla Tharp's Birthday. She said: “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” 

Word Pool: Play with some or all of the words below. Add more.
Begin with the sentence: It was the day I ran away from home.
Words:
moonrise,  underneath, staying, tip, enough, ramble, noise, through, wide, deep, walk, square, capacity, goose, sky, particular, sea, influence, shower, menacing.

Last month the theme was "simple". I love this "acronym" that Sandy DeBoice came up with:
A SIMPLE life IMPELS the soul to seek.

Pam Ellis with a Muse (Muses don't show up in photos though)

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach Spotlight: Pam Ellis

Origami Box

Links and Loose Associations

More Boxes:

Click the above button to hear a story written and read by my boyfriend, Randy H. called The Day a Box Learned Me About How Beautiful is so Good. 


Steve Martin on the dating game 1968... bumping up against the edges of his closet.

The Letter from The Boxtops!

A sunbox that you can print and put tab A into slot B.

Check out Pam Ellis's incredible Art

Rae Warde's Newsletter

Join Meredith Resnick's Writers Journey (Interview with Jill Badonsky on June 7 post).. You can join Writer's Journey on Facebook.

This singing duet: Danny Thomas and Armstrong... gives us a feel good song for the little box on your calendar marked the Fourth of July.

Visit Sandra Magsamen's Website and subscribe to wonder there.

Oribtal: The Box

Thank you Creative Portal: Sign up for Chris's free newsletter. It's chock full of wonder, prompts, ingenuity, pretty boxes, and birthdays of someone I know personally - the one with the mood swings.

In This Issue

Cereal Murders

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Training Coming Up

Tricks are for Kids

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach Spotlight: Pam Ellis

Links and Loose Associations